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  1.  PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 2
  2.  Graphic Workshop Security (additional notification)
  3.  Alpha Paint 10 Revision 3 (second notification)
  4.  Animation Workshop 10 Revision 3 (additional notification)
  5.  We're Open During COVID-19 (additional notification)
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PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 2



PNG MNG Construction Set 10 has been substantially rewritten and expanded. If you build animations for web pages, social media or other on-line content, prepare yourself to be totally blown away.

Among its new and enhanced features are:
  • Animated PNG Support: Create animated PNG documents with all the flexibility of GIF animations, and none of GIF's relentless limitations. Animated PNGs offer true color, alpha transparency, millisecond timing and leading-edge compression. More to the point, you can use them in an HTML document just as you would traditional GIF animations — they're supported by all the current web browsers.

    There's a more extensive discussion of animated PNGs at our blog.
  • WebP Support: The original WebP support in PNG MNG Construction Set managed WebP animations using the same user interface as MNG documents, which was somewhat complicated. WebP now has its own user interface — it's vastly simpler. As with animated PNG, WebP animations can be used in a web page just like GIFs, and WebP includes variable compression for situations wherein file size and download times are an issue.

  • Format Conversion: Convert between animated PNG, MNG and WebP animations.
  • User Interface: Pretty much every function in the application has been reviewed and improved. The various processes that required that specific chunks be selected to activate them now automatically select all the chunks in a document window if no c hunks have been explicitly selected. Numerous excluded document types are now supported. Several long-standing gremlins and demons are history.

  • Photostack: Addresses several issues in the Photostack animation generation window.

  • Resize: The Resize window resizes the Image chunk offsets as well as the image dimensions, so complex animations remain correct when their dimensions are adjusted.

  • Export to GIF: The Export to GIF functionality has been enhanced, for those situations when you need really mature technology. Some social media platforms, for example, don't like animated PNGs.
  • Application Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration logic and the themes used by PNG MNG Construction Set. Left to its own devices, this one could crash the application and potentially compromise your Windows security.

  • PNG Security: Updates the primary PNG libraries used by PNG MNG Construction Set to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  • JPEG Security: Updates the primary JPG libraries used by PNG MNG Construction Set to the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue.

  • Image Libraries: Updates all the image libraries used by PNG MNG Construction Set to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of its graphics.
  • Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
         
  • Documentation: Updates the documentation.

Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set 10.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 9, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 10 for half the single-user license price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.


The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons.

Graphic Workshop Security (additional notification)



Graphic Workshop Professional 10 enjoys seriously aggressive security upgrades. Over the past few months, we've nailed a number of vulnerabilities in its imaging libraries, in the application itself and in the ancillary software that installs with it.

These have included updates to Graphic Workshop's JPG, PNG and WebP readers, and lots of internal functionality.

There are some truly reprehensible people under some truly slimy rocks that spend their mean little lives trying to compromise your computer, steal your personal information and install malware, ransomware... and probably a few 'wares we'd rather not know about.

Well-maintained software is your first line of defense against them.

Check Your Version: If you're currently running Graphic Workshop Professional 10, please check its revision level in its Help → About window. Should your installation be older than revision 6, we'd like to urge you in the strongest possible terms to download and install the latest release, and plug any outstanding security holes.

Just click on the DOWNLOAD NOW button, below.

Older Workshops: If you're using a version of Graphic Workshop earlier than Graphic Workshop Professional 10, you're vulnerable to invasions through maliciously-crafted graphic files that have been designed to execute arbitrary code on your machine. We're pretty sure the "arbitrary code" in question won't turn out to be the Windows Solitaire game.

Reduced Price: We'd like to offer anyone with a registered installation of Graphic Workshop 4 through 9 the opportunity to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for half the current single-user license price. Doing so will:

  • Protect your computer from attacks.
  • Improve its performance when it's running Graphic Workshop.

  • Avail you of lots of new functionality.

  • Assist numerous cyber-cretins to find useful, rewarding alternate careers in pizza delivery and big-box retail services.
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You can download an installer for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 by clicking on the big blue button, below.


 
Upgrade: Click on the Upgrade button to visit our Upgrade page and enjoy all the security and leading-edge features of Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for half the single-user license cost. Use the Software Upgrades section of the page.



We hasten to add that you won't need your existing Graphic Workshop registration key to upgrade — our ordering system will find you in our customer database. If you encounter a message at the upgrade page to the effect that upgrades are only available for users of our version 9 and 10 software, please ignore it.

In response to numerous e-mail requests, we've extended this upgrade by an extra week. The extended half-price upgrade window began at 12:00am EST on March 27, 2020 and will end at 11:59pm EST on April 19, 2020.

Alpha Paint 10 Revision 3 (second notification)


Alpha Paint 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are:
  • Application Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration logic and the themes used by Alpha Paint. Left to its own devices, this one could crash the application and potentially compromise your Windows security.

  • PNG Security: Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Alpha Paint to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.
  • Image Libraries: Updates all the image libraries used by Alpha Paint to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of its graphics.

  • WebP: Updates the WebP library to improve the appearance of images stored with lossy compression.
  • Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
         
  • Documentation: Updates the documentation.

Click on the blue button to download Alpha Paint 10.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 9, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 10 for half the single-user license price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.




Animation Workshop 10 Revision 3 (additional notification)


Animation Workshop 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are:
  • Application Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration logic and the themes used by Animation Workshop. Left to its own devices, this one could crash the application and potentially compromise your Windows security.

  • PNG Security: Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Animation Workshop to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.
  • JPEG Security: Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Animation Workshop to the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue.

  • Image Libraries: Updates all the image libraries used by Animation Workshop to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of its graphics.

  • WebP: Updates the WebP library to improve the appearance of complex animations stored with lossy compression.
  • Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
         
  • Documentation: Updates the documentation.

Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop 10.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 9, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 10 for half the single-user license price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.




We're Open During COVID-19 (additional notifications)



As of this writing, we're open — albeit with lots of working from home — and we have every intention of staying that way during the current pandemic.

Our support staff remain ready to assist you with any questions about our software.

Orders will be processed and registration keys dispatched as quickly as possible.

Our telephones are being answered... mostly. If you call and you encounter voice mail, please accept our apology. Leave us a message with your name, your contact information and the reason for your call. We'll get back to you as quickly as possible.

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